Human parts on offer

organs.
They have already grown the bladder, urethra and windpipe which have been implanted into patients during clinical trials.
Now scientists have set their sights on replicating more complicated organs, including the heart, kidneys, liver, pancreas and thymus.
The advances could extend life expectancy and cut waiting times for transplants.
The developments were detailed at a conference on “rejuvenation technologies” at Cambridge University, reported the Sunday Times.
Organiser Aubrey de Gray explained: “We are seeing the emergence of a new era of medicine where the diseases of aging can be blocked or even reversed. These therapies are mostly in research now but eventually they will be commonplace.”
One of the speakers, Professor Paolo Macchiarini, of the Karolinska institute in Sweden, told how he implanted a laboratory-grown windpipe into a man stricken by throat cancer.
It had been created by using an artificial “scaffold” designed in the shape of a windpipe which was implanted with the patient’s stem cells. – RIA Novosti.